Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi - Rilegato

Rana Dasgupta

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ISBN 10: 085786002X ISBN 13: 9780857860026

Casa editrice: Canongate Books Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

'A terrific portrait of Delhi right now' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'An astonishing tour de force by a major writer at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE WINNER OF THE PRIX EMILE GUIMET DE LITTERATURE ASIATIQUE 2017 WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGER 2016 At the turn of the twenty-first century, acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him - he 'fell in love and in hate with it' - and fourteen years later, Delhi is still his home. Fourteen years of break-neck change. The boom following the opening up of India's economy plunged Delhi into a tumult of destruction and creation: slums and markets were ripped down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. But the transformation was stern, abrupt and fantastically unequal, and it gave rise to strange and bewildering feelings. The city brimmed with ambition and rage. Bizarre crimes stole the headlines. In Capital, we see Delhi through the eyes of its people. With the lyricism and empathy of a novelist, Dasgupta takes us through a series of encounters - with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts - which plunge us into Delhi's intoxicating, and sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation. Interweaving over a century of history with his personal journey, he presents us with the first literary portrait of one of the twenty-first century's fastest-growing megalopolises - a dark and uncanny portrait that gives us insights, too, as to the nature of our own - everyone's - shared, global future.

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Lyrical and haunting (International New York Times)

Rana Dasgupta is the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation (SALMAN RUSHDIE)

[Dasgupta has] a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty (New Yorker)

Only the most gifted writers, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jonathan Safran-Foer, can hold the surreal and the real in satisfying equilibrium. This elite now welcomes Rana Dasgupta to its ranks (Time Out on TOKYO CANCELLED)

Fascinating... Solo is utterly unforgettable in its humanity... the kind of "philharmonic" novel that reminds us why we will always need to tell the extraordinary stories of people's ordinary lives (Guardian on SOLO)

In this bewitching novel, Dasgupta updates the magic realism of the subcontinent, and brings it fully formed into a new century (Metro on SOLO)

This gloriously eccentric adventure through a century of Bulgarian history is so much fun to read you'll hardly realise how much you're learning... Weird, wonderful and warmly wise stuff (Daily Mail on SOLO) --Daily Mail

L'autore:

Rana Dasgupta won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book for his debut novel Solo. He is also the author of a collection of urban folktales, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Capital is his first work of non-fiction. Born in Canterbury in 1971, he now lives in Delhi.

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• Editore: Canongate Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 085786002X
• ISBN 13: 9780857860026
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 512